View Date: 7/25/09
This film is a documentary about professional Scrabble players. It focuses on approximately 4 players, while featuring others. The players come from all walks of life, some living in abject poverty while others keep day or night jobs. Yet all study for hours every day trying to memorize words in hope of winning the national championship. The movie counts down to this competition, featuring practice rounds and other tournaments along the way.
I think my favorite part was watching the folks play in Central Park, who are actually really competitive. All of the players shown compete in timed events such as chess matches. One player in Central Park refuses to play in tournaments, but has beaten nationally ranked players, yet they don't have the same egos. Some of the players are rather geeky, but others are very “normal” people who just really like to play Scrabble.
10 words or less: Interesting to watch people do what they do best.
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